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What is Your Culture? Is it What You Say or What Your Customers and Employees Say……

Every company likes to think they have a great culture but if you ask each member of the leadership team to sum theirs up, most will give vague, airy answers that don’t match. This is because most companies don’t actually have a “WOW” culture. Often in the corporate world you get an amalgamation of cultures or distinct […]

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International Customer Service Week Blog Post #3 – Designing Your Customer Experience

Customer experience design is not about scripting your people, or prescribing exact behaviors at every point. It’s about creating the right environment, with the right ‘back-stage’ support and technology and then enabling your people to facilitate an experience that will be valued by your customers. There is a concept called ‘Loose/Tight’. Most organizations are very

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International Customer Service Week Blog Post #2 – Discovering Your WOW

WOW is such a short, simple word, but it really encompasses a lot of things. To WOW, you must differentiate yourself, which means doing something a little unconventional and innovative. You must do something that’s above and beyond what’s expected. And whatever you do must have an emotional impact on the receiver. You are not

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International Customer Service Week Blog Post #1 – Service Champions – Serving with Empathy

Serving with Empathy – International Customer Service Week – October 03 – 07, 2016 is finally here!!! This week we will be dedicating our blog posts to the theme of the week Service Champions. If you are in business – your number one responsibility should be to serve your customers. I want to start out

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Complaining Customers and How to Handle Their Complaints

Customer complaints are inevitable in Customer Service, technology might fail, a overlooked issue might rear its head, there’s bound to be one problem or the other. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business. Here are 5 types of Complainers & How to Respond: The Meek Customer – Generally, will not complain. Response:

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The Power of Empathy

Empathy is the art of seeing the world as someone else sees it. When you have empathy, it means you can understand what a person is feeling in a given moment, and understand why other people’s actions made sense to them. Without empathy and focus, you’ll never be able to communicate effectively and relate well

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